Quote from Forum Archives on October 1, 2017, 11:19 am

Posted by: pastorbob <pastorbob@...>

October 1                    Humble Servant          Luke 20:41 – 47

   

Luke 20:41-47 "Then Jesus presented them with a question. "Why is it," he asked, "that the Messiah is said to be the son of David?  For David himself wrote in the book of Psalms: 'The LORD said to my Lord, Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet.' Since David called the Messiah 'Lord,' how can the Messiah be his son?" Then, with the crowds listening, he turned to his disciples and said, "Beware of these teachers of religious law! For they like to parade around in flowing robes and love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces. And how they love the seats of honor in the synagogues and the head table at banquets. Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this, they will be severely punished."

 

1. Jesus is not the son of David
1. Jesus is the Son of God
2. He is GREATER than man
3. We error when we try to bring Jesus down to our level and make Him seem like a man

                                                  i.      He is God

4. We are to STRIVE to follow Him and become more like Him

                                                  i.      We are to become better

                                                ii.      Not make Jesus worse

5. They were to caught up in the genealogy – looking back for salvation instead of right in front of them.

                                                  i.      Trying to make the Messiah human

                                                ii.      David may have sought Gods heart – but he was still JUST a man.  HE was not God.

2. This text was very formative for me in my early "preacher boy" days
1. SO many want to be bloviators
2. SO many want to exalt themselves and make themselves seem to be better/more than they are through:

                                                  i.      Fancy Dress

                                                ii.      Fancy works

                                              iii.      Fancy Public Speaking (not really prayers)

                                              iv.      Fancy positions and banquet invitations

1. If they can sit at the front table
2. They seek to hide behind the robes and fake smiles

                                                  i.      They are a bit like the magicians of today

1. Want you to look at the distraction so you miss what is really going on.
3. So many wanted to be just like Billy Graham

                                                  i.      They practiced acting and sounding like him

                                                ii.      They pushed down who God made them in order to be someone God did not make them to be

5. Nowadays they all want to sound like Rick Warren or Adrian Rogers
2. Long ago I decided to be the person God made me to be
1. He went to great extremes to make me the way He made me

                                                  i.      All the way back to the Garden and the flood, God handpicked my ancestors, their cultures, their locations, their jobs and their very DNA so that on May 23, 1961 little baby Bob could be born

1. At just the right time
2. Of just the right parents
3. In just the right place

                                                ii.      God knew what I would experience in life, the good and the bad and the ugly

1. When I became His Child He began to use all of that for GOOD; because I love Him and am Called by Him for His purposes.
1. God has invested to much in me, molding and making me just the way He wants me for me to reject Him and His plan and try to be someone I am not.
3. The Temple Elite were fakers
1. The Temple Elite were arrogant broods of vipers
2. The Temple Elite were thieves with no MERCY
3. The Temple Elite were pretenders with no GRACE
4. The Temple Elite were wolves in sheep's clothing
4. Christians are called to follow the Lord Jesus Christ
1. Humility
2. Obedience
3. Faith – Hope  -  Love

                                                  i.      Christians are called to be HUMBLE SERVANTS

4. Just like Jesus
5. Every Day you be the very best you - you can be!
6. The Next day try to be better for Jesus

 

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